Comings and Goings: July 26, 2011

If you've been laid off recently, left your job or landed a new position and would like to pass along your contact information to others in the business, send details to pwletters@publishersweekly.com. Please include your full name and former title/company.

Jill Yngve Nadeau, former national account manager at Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, can now be reached at jyngve@charter.net.

Deborah Eisenberg Joins Columbia MFA Faculty

Deborah Eisenberg, MacArthur fellow and winner of the 2011 PEN/Faulkner for fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, has joined the faculty of the writing program at Columbia University.

Authors on the Air July 26, 2011: Juan Williams, Brooke Gladstone, Harriett Mogul, Pat Cooper

Juan Williams, author of Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, (Crown, 978-0307952011) will be on The Daily Show.

The Colbert Report will have Brooke Gladstone for her new book The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (W.W. Norton & Company, 978-0393077797).

Job Moves: July 25, 2011

Anne Boynton-Trigg has joined Scholastic as v-p, export, and will be responsible for continuing to expand sales penetration in both mature and emerging export regions as well as overseeing marketing initiatives.

Authors on the Air July 25, 2011: Brian Cox

Brian Cox, author of Wonders of the Universe (Harper Design, 978-0062110541) will be on The Colbert Report.

Job Moves: July 22, 2011

Brian Crawford, president of the publications division of the American Chemical Society and a foremost research scientist,has been elected to the board of directors of the Association of American Publishers, the industry's leading trade association.

Authors on the Air July 22, 2011: S.L. Stebel, Rick Tramonto

S.L. (Sid) Stebel will be interviewed live by Ed Goldberg on Portland, Oregon's All-Classical KQAC-FM radio for his book Double Your Creative Power: Make Your Subconscious a Partner in the Writing Process (Allen A. Knoll, 978-1888310207).

Job Moves: July 21, 2011

Gary Hubbard has been appointed as Group Business Development director of SBS Worldwide. Hubbard will be in charge of delivering SBS’s new strategic business plan across the operating sites in North America, China, the UK and the emerging economies.

Authors on the Air July 21, 2011: John Prendergast, Scott Miller, David Eagleman

Tavis Smiley will talk to John Prendergast about his book Unlikely Brothers: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption (Crown, 978-0307464842).

The Daily Show will have Scott Miller for his book The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century (Random House, 978-1400067527).

Authors on the Air July 20, 2011: Michael Sandel, Esmerelda Santiago

Michael Sandel author of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 978-0374532505) will be on The Colbert Report.

On The Leonard Lopate Show, Esmerelda Santiago will talk about her new novel Conquistadora (Knopf, 978-0307268327)

Job Moves: July 19, 2011

Valiant Entertainment, the character-based entertainment company with more than 1,500 characters in its library, including X-O Manowar and Harbinger, named producer and transmedia pioneer Jeff Gomez transmedia producer and creative consultant. Gomez has consulted extensively on such blockbuster properties as Avatar, Transformers, Halo and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Authors on the Air July 19, 2011: Daniel Silva, Cole Thomson, Adam Ross

Portrait of a Spy (Harper, 9780062072184) author Daniel Silva will be on the Today show.

Cole Thomson, author of Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312359218), will appear on Joy Behar.

Authors on the Air July 18, 2011: Glenn Carle, Cynthia Sass

Glenn Carle talked about his book The Interrogator: An Education (Nation Books, 978-1568586731) on NPR's Morning Report.

Job Moves: July 18, 2011

Andrea Walker has been appointed to senior editor of The Penguin Press, effective August 1. Walker comes to The Penguin Press from Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, where she has worked since 2009.

At Chronicle Books, Alison Elsby has joined as director distribution client services. Elsby was formerly director of merchandising with Borders Group. Peter Perez has been promoted to associate marketing director, food & drink, art & design, stationery.

Frankfurt Book Fair's Fellowship Programme

Participants include 16 young publishing, editorial and rights professionals from 11 different countries. Meet them all here.

Authors on the Air July 15, 2011: Sarah Jamila Stevenson, Rick Tramonto, Richard Mabey

Sarah Jamila Stevenson, the debut author of the YA novel The Late Rebellion (Flux Books, 978-0738722788) will air on NPR’s “Tell Me More."

Celebrity Chef Rick Tramonto will share from his new memoir, Scars of a Chef (Tyndale, 978-1-4143-3162-1) on the nationally-syndicated Crystal Cathedral “Hour of Power” television on Saturday July 16, 6pm EST on TBN and Sunday July 17, 8am EST and 9am PST on the LifeTime channel.

The Paris Review in Paris: Lorin Stein in the Magazine’s Birth City

The most-recently appointed editor of the Paris Review, Lorin Stein, came to speak in the magazine’s namesake city, in the cobbled square in front of Shakespeare & Company.

Authors on the Air July 14, 2011: Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti, Jennifer Egan

Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti will be on The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) to discuss The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City (Faber & Faber, 978-0865479456).

Jennifer Egan will be on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her book-of-the-month selection Look at Me (Anchor, 978-0385721356).

Job Moves: July 14, 2011

At Candlewick Press, Sarah Ketchersid has been promoted to executive editor, having previously served as a senior editor.